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...Toner are dressed in green sweaters, khaki slacks, and brown shoes. Both speak in a believable Irish brogue. Alone in the bedroom, the two help each other imagine what existence will be like living in Philadelphia with "their" aunt. First, Gar is a star soccer player, then a businessman on his way to becoming president of a major corporation. Next, he's a famous violinist; later he's a powerful U. S. Senator...
...next little period was pretty routine. They lived near Bordeaux. Janis free-lanced articles. Michel started his firm. Sean was born in 1979, the year his father began to chafe. "I was 90% businessman. I was wearing a mask all the time." He would project himself as a man of the masses when dealing with socialist clients, could quickly affect a monied mien for the benefit of the capitalists, and felt like a fraud. It was also in 1979 that the couple bought the boat, for about $35,000, and began to lay plans...
...survey released last month by Arizona Pollster Earl de Berge, 44% rated Mecham's performance as "poor" or "very poor." Mecham professes to be unconcerned about criticism, but he may find it harder to brush off Ed Buck. A Phoenix businessman, Buck launched a recall campaign in January and distributed more than 25,000 MECHAM FOR EX-GOVERNOR bumper stickers. "He is a polarizing, divisive leader," Buck contends. Under state law, Buck must wait four more months before starting to collect the 216,746 signatures necessary to force a re-election. "I don't know who is paying him," Mecham...
...divestment candidates this year areSidel, Haywood Burns '62, vice provost for theCity College of New York, Jerome Grossman '38, aMassachusetts businessman and liberal activist,Ruth J. Messinger '62, a New York City Councilor,Peter D. Wood '64, a Duke University historyprofessor, and Consuela Washington, counsel to theHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce. They,along with 12 candidates nominated by theUniversity, are running for six vacant spots onthe Board...
...convoluted tale began in April 1985, when two of North's shadowy private partners, Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, hired a 163-ft. Danish ship, the Veralil, to ferry weapons to the contras. The ship was loaded with Soviet AK-47 guns in Poland, then sent to Portugal to pick up ammunition. Documents said the ship was headed for Guatemala, but she docked in Honduras, where the contras collected the weapons...